Chard · TR19 Grease
We degrease the canopy, baffle filters and extractor fan for Chard restaurants, takeaways and pubs - so the system pulls properly, runs cooler and holds a current TR19 certificate.
Chard
Chard fries across the town - the Fore Street and High Street cooklines cook from open to close, and the Holyrood Street and Combe Street kitchens run alongside.
Different kitchens, same grease. Around Silver Street, Boden Street and the outlying strips, the grill houses and takeaways put an extraction canopy through the hardest work it will ever do. With hundreds of food premises rated across Chard, most are frying in a cramped space.
We degrease exactly what the Silver Street and Boden Street cooks stand under - the canopy, the baffle filters and the extractor fan. Cleaned properly the system draws as designed, clearing heat and steam, carrying a current TR19 Grease certificate, and running cooler, since a clean Chard fan is not straining against grease to shift the same air.
The system
Extraction cleaning is the accessible heart of the system - the kit above a hard-frying Silver Street cookline that does the work and shows the grease first.
We strip and degrease the canopy inside and out, clean the baffle filters or swap them where needed, and degrease the extractor fan and its housing - the piece that quietly sheds performance as grease weighs down the blades over a hard Boden Street service. It is cleaned to the TR19 Grease standard, with before-and-after evidence and a certificate, so the system draws as it should and your Chard fire risk assessment and insurer get the record they want.
Filters
The standard for commercial cooklines: they trap grease and slow flame spread. Cleaned, or replaced when warped or corroded.
Common on older or lighter setups; they clog fast and pass grease through if neglected. We flag where a baffle upgrade is overdue.
On the odour and emission-controlled systems near Chard's residential streets; cleaned or changed so the downstream stages are not overwhelmed.
Fire
A Chard cookline's extraction and its fire protection are one system - and a clean is the moment to check the join.
Nozzles aimed at the canopy and cooking points; grease build-up around them on a busy Silver Street line is exactly what they exist to fight. We clean around them without disturbing the system.
Where the gas shuts off if extraction fails on a Silver Street line, we work without tripping it - and flag it if it is not behaving.
Checked for the grease that would stop them closing - a quiet failure point on a Boden Street system that a quick canopy wipe misses.
On the ground in Chard
We are under Chard's canopies every week. Real jobs, not stock shots.
A Holyrood Street cafe in Chard had grease carbonising on the extract fan and cutting the pull through the lunch rush. We ran a manual degrease over the fan and housing, rebalanced the impeller and reset the speed, clearing the haze that had built over the servery. The owner took a recurring quarterly clean.
Why it pays
Extraction cleaning is a fire-risk job first - but it pays back every Chard service.
Clear the canopy and fan of grease and a hard Silver Street cookline sheds its heat and steam faster, so the kitchen keeps cooler and the fan works less to move the same air. Leave it caked and you carry a fire risk, a failed inspection point and an uncomfortable kitchen at once. How often it is due tracks the cooking - the Boden Street takeaways well beyond a daytime cafe - and your certificate names the next date.
Inspect the Chard canopy, filters and fan, agree scope and frequency.
Remove filters and access panels, protect the cookline.
Canopy, filters and fan to bare metal, with before-and-after evidence.
TR19 Grease certificate and next-due date for your Chard fire logbook.
Questions
It depends how hard the kitchen runs. Under TR19 Grease, heavy use of 12 to 16 hours a day points to roughly every three months, moderate to every six, light to every twelve. A busy Silver Street or Boden Street kitchen sits in a tighter band than a daytime cafe.
Yes. The takeaways and grill houses around Boden Street and High Street run a canopy, filters and a fan and often carry a heavy grease load for their size. We clean and certify them the same way as a full restaurant system.
It can. An inspection covers the physical condition of the premises, ventilation included, so a grease-laden canopy or fan over a Fore Street cookline can count against your score.
Yes. Where a filter is warped, corroded or a mesh type that keeps passing grease, we say so and swap it - common on the older Boden Street takeaway canopies that have run hot for years.
Extraction cleaning covers the canopy, filters and fan; where the concealed duct run behind them is also loaded - as it often is in a tight Silver Street kitchen - we clean the full run to TR19 and certify it together.
Yes - from Silver Street, Boden Street and the city centre out to the suburbs, and across the wider Somerset.
Yes. Beyond restaurants, Chard has campus catering at the local college, works catering at the moulding plant, and town-centre and hotel kitchens - high-volume systems we clean and certify alongside the hospitality work.
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